Reply #26: Because corporations/businesses that produce agricultural products [View All]

and raw materials generally do not pay much. They hire sharecroppers and high school dropouts to do most of the work that can't be done by machinery. Agricultural products and raw materials aren't as profitable as manufactured goods.

Most Americans live in urban areas, and the agricultural and raw material sectors don't hire large numbers of city dwellers. Besides we are importing more and more cheap agricultural products and raw materials.

Sooner or later we will move away from the folly of free trade or be ruined. There ia nothing free about free trade. It is costing us our way of life, our national identity and our values. We cannot allow unlimited underpriced imports into our country and remain a self-reliant, independent people.